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Security Warning For 23 Million YouTube Creators Following 'Massive' Hack Attack
High-profile YouTubers have been targeted by cybercriminals over the weekend in what appears to have been a highly coordinated and "massive" attack. The security warning was made by Catalin Cimpanu, a ZDNet reporter, who spoke to a member of an internet forum with a history of trading access to hacked accounts. Here's what we know so far and what you need to do to protect your own YouTube account.
According to the ZDNet investigation, many accounts belonging to well-known YouTubers within the car community appear to have been hijacked. However, it would also appear the attack itself has been directed mostly towards "influencers" across many YouTube channel genres. Amongst those taking to Twitter to complain about their YouTube accounts being hacked and access to their channels lost, were YouTubers covering technology, music, gaming and Disney. With more than 23 million YouTube channels, anyone who creates content should be heeding this warning though.
(Score: 5, Informative) by rob_on_earth on Thursday September 26 2019, @02:09PM (5 children)
According to tFA and the embed YouTube on that page, all the channel owners clicked a phishing link in an email that appeared to be from other channel owners and they entered their usernames and passwords.
This then begs the question, if they all had 2FA enabled how did the baddies get control of their accounts with just a valid username and password.
and it appears the hackers changed the channel vanity URI and did not delete the channels, but this meant viewers could not find them.
(Score: 4, Informative) by aristarchus on Thursday September 26 2019, @08:04PM (4 children)
Oh, crap, not again! No, it does not "beg the question".
https://begthequestion.info/ [begthequestion.info]
(Score: 3, Touché) by curunir_wolf on Thursday September 26 2019, @08:24PM (2 children)
Give it up, dude. The usage and meaning of the phrase has changed. That happens in languages.
Sorry you're so upset about it. I don't worry, myself, I'm quite gay.
I am a crackpot
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday September 26 2019, @10:21PM
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https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday September 27 2019, @08:10AM
And I am quite happy for you! But as a Logician, "This Shall Not Pass!!" (It's a neckbeard wizard thing). The change in this case is based on semi-literacy and ignorance. If you mean "begs for the question to be asked/raised", then, say that. But to use "question begging" in this sense is something of a damp squid. [wikipedia.org] I mean to say, the usage does not pass the mustard! It is kind of like a bowl in a China shop [chronicle.com] and a "mute point". Only someone lacking toast and intolerant would think this is a normal change of language. There is a database [lascribe.net], you know. . . But perhaps it is all for knot.
(Score: 3, Touché) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday September 26 2019, @09:45PM
Your post begs the question: "Why is there no +1 Pedant mod?".